Watson doesn’t look quite as dinky as the robot in the photo, but what it lacks in looks, it makes up for with smarts: becoming famous by winning Jeopardy in 2011.

Today it advises banks on asset management and helps cancer specialists make diagnoses. The IBM team programmed Watson in such a way that it not only learns incredibly quickly, can play chess and hold interviews: it can do much more, including being trained to recognize breast cancer on images.

The basis is artificial intelligence and an unbelievable algorithm. A fascinating and exciting topic!